Expectations regarding the second season of “Round 6” they only increase. The South Korean production was nominated this Monday (9) for the 2025 Golden Globe before even debuting on Netflix .
The title competes in the category of Best Drama Series against “The Day of the Jackal”, “The Diplomat”, “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”, “Shogun: The Glorious Saga of Japan” and “Slow Horses”. The result will be announced at the ceremony scheduled for January 5th .
Despite only arriving on the streaming service on December 26th, The series’ release date falls within the awards eligibility window, which runs from January 1st to December 31st, 2024 .
The first season of “Round 6” It broke records as one of the most watched original productions in the platform’s history and became the first non-English-language production to be nominated for Best Drama at the Emmy Awards in 2022.
In the first season of the series, Seong Gi-hun (played by Emmy winner Lee Jung-jae), player 456, is the big winner of the game and takes home the prize of billions of won. However, he becomes unhappy and becomes a bitter man, unable to even spend the money he earned by being the only survivor of the game made for poor people to risk their lives in the search for wealth.
According to series director Hwang Dong-hyuk, the new season will focus on Gi-hun’s determination to end the game. He decides to participate in the game again, starting another life and death competition with new participants competing for the prize of 45.6 billion won.
“Gi-hun’s effort to discover who these people are and why they do what they do is the central story of Season 2,” Hwang Dong-hyuk said in a statement.
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This content was originally published in “Round 6” is nominated for a Golden Globe 2025 before debuting on Netflix on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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